Cheap rhythm tracks made with keyboard?

Parr Bryan · From: Nacogdoches,Texas

I'm looking for a way to make cheap rhythm tracks just to play along with myself. I'm not looking for quality sound here, just cheap and easy.
My thoughts so far:
1.Buy a keyboard ($$$$$$)to use the rhythm programs then add my own bass playing. But then I have to have another recorder to record both of these together which I think maybe adding $$$$ and extra work/time
2.Maybe some kind of drum machine or some other type of thing.
I can play bass to add to the mix if needed to make the tracks but as aforementioned I'm looking for the cheap and easy way to do this.
What do yall/you guys do?

Skip Ellis · From: Bradenton, Fl USA

You can get a lot of free MIDI files off the internet that you can play in your computer. I use 'Band In A Box' software from www.PGMusic.com. Great program - just type in the chords, choose a style and let 'er rip.

Charles Davidson · From: Phenix City Alabama, USA

A good way to make tracks just to practice with is get a cheap[around a hundred bucks]casio keyboard,some have a lot of different rhythms,all the chords you can play with one finger,and bass lines.you can make pratice tracks any way you want them,any length,tempo,or key real easy.DYKBC.
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Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

Get a program called Band In A Box.

http://www.pgmusic.com/

Bunch of guys here on the forum use it.

Andy Sandoval · From: Bakersfield, California, USA

Band in a box Smile

Joe Rouse · From: San Antonio, Texas

I looked for a cheap keyboard for 3 months for use in keeping me on the beat and ended up with 4 keyboards. A friend of mine in Arkansas gave them to me and I have really grown to hate them. 3 worked and work well. I set them for a certain rhythm and they some how get out of rhythm with me.(I don't set all 3 at the same time) You don't think it could be me do you?
I thought I was ready to play outside the confines of my home but after playing along with the keyboard rhythm I believe I will do that at a later date. Keyboards are neat and simple to use. Please keep in mind that I have a great deal of experience in the pedal steel guitar since I have been persuing
the ability to play this wonderful instrument for just over a 1 year and 6 months. The longer I practice and persue the more I realize how much talent you players have been blessed with and how much you all have worked to get where you are in your playing today...jr

Charles Davidson · From: Phenix City Alabama, USA

Joe if you are getting out of meter playing along with any kind of rhytum machine It's proberly you,[don't mean this in a demeaning way]Play along with a CD[any kind of music you like]this will help you work on your meter.If you get out of meter with the CD,then it's YOUR meter you need to work on,Like anything else just takes practice,and it will come together.DYKBC.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC !

Jennings Ward · From: Edgewater, Florida, R.I.P.

I TRIED TI GET MY WIFE TO POUND ON A ZINC WASH TUB LIKE BAMA CHARLIE TOLD ME TO.. SHE PUT IT ON MY HEAD AND STARTED TO HIT IT WITH AN ALUMNIUM BAALL BAT, ASKING WAS THAT THE RIGHT TEMPO AND PHRASEING....... BAMA CHARLIE,, DONT WORK FOR ME....
THE POSSUM KING

Charles Davidson · From: Phenix City Alabama, USA

JW,YOU OLD COOT,YOU SPENT TOO MUCH TIME WITH THAT OLD GAL[THE ONE MISS JANE DON'T KNOW ABOUT]IN VIRGINNY THAT PLAYED DROP-THUMB BANJER,THAT'S THE REASON YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF METER.JUST GO KNAW ON A POSSOM LEG AND LET US PROS HANDLE THINGS.DYKBC.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC !

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